Well, a VFR ticket is more than I have at the moment. I can understand saying or doing things in the heat of the moment...as long as you don't do it in the cockpit, we'll all be fine;-)
Ultimately, I think this system is going to make pilots more vigilant. I've heard so many anecdotes about controllers causing near-misses (my uncle almost got creamed by a commuter plane while flying his warrior) that I think this may be a good thing.
This system simply provides location and identification information to airplanes operating under ATC. The system tells the controller where the aircraft is, the aircraft transponder tells the controller who the aircraft is, and the controller then issues instructions to the pilot, who is then responsible for executing those instructions. The hijackers of september 11 flew those planes into the towers and Pentagon by visual navigation (at least for the last few miles...they may have used the GPS system to navigate to NYC or DC).
In short, the ATC system had nothing to do with those airplanes flying into buildings. The only way your blacker side situation would work would be to have a malicious person operating as the controller, and IFR conditions so a non-hijacker pilot couldn't see where he's going.
I'm glad this ridiculous ruling was objected to and stayed (for now), but it touches on a bigger problem: PVR companies could shield their customers from this type of abuse by simply not implementing a way to track viewing habits. Just make a PVR that doesn't track anything but software diagnostics. Then advertise it as a feature: "we won't spy on your viewing habits like other PVR companies!"
Of course, an unscrupulous PVR company could make that claim, get someone like TrustE to back it up, then put a bunch of fine print in that basically exempts them from it.
The bill would cover transactions both on the Internet and in the "offline" world, and would override state laws that place more restrictions on commercial use of personal information. Sponsors said the bill would establish basic privacy protections for consumers while minimizing the impact on business.
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"Consumers would have no right to sue if their privacy was violated. Enforcement would be left in the hands of the Federal Trade Commission, which usually does not impose fines on a first offense.
Companies submitting to a self-regulatory privacy regime such as TRUSTe or BBBonline would enjoy protection from FTC actions."
This is absolutely obscene. It overrides more restrictive state laws (so much for Republicans respecting states' rights), removes consumers' right to sue when they are wronged, and protects companies who enroll in TrustE's BS service to escape FTC punishment when they violate the rules. Sounds like those campaign bribes, er, contributions are paying off big.
Yeah, it's a lot easier to run this type of story than to conduct real journalism (like exposing Senator Disney Hollings to public scrutiny for trying to allow media companies to screw us every which way). Of course, CNN isn't exactly known as a bastion of good journalism. None of the major news entities are. They serve advertisers, not the viewing public.
There are some valid criticisms there. I'm still using my Clie as a PDA, but the Zaurus is great and will only get better. The US Robotics Pilot sucked when it first came out, but it evolved into an essestial tool over time. I hope the Zaurus evolves that way too. I'd like to see a smaller form factor, better s reen res, metal cases, and a way to place the display on hold while playing music. The battery life needs to improve dramatically, especially when using a wireless card.
That said, not many PDAs give you both CF and SD slots. Embedix/Qt is a great OS for the PDA, and I hope it grows and rivals Palm OS and Pocket PC.
This is a great little machine. Embedix 2.4 with both CF and SD/MMC slots (the DRM on the SD is not enabled on the Zaurus). The screen is pretty good (320 x 240) and the apps run very smoothly with 64MB of memory. About 30 people her ein my ofice bought the developer edition at JavaOne, and they're all a bit jealous now. Of course, I did pay a whole lot more than they did.
I was a bit dissappointed that there's no GUI bash shell on the consumer edition (there was a Qt app shell on the developer edition). I suppose that can be remedied with a software install, but I haven't found the installer yet. It works well with the Linksys WiFi card...but the battery life goes straight down the tube when you're surfing.
Overall, I'd say it's a very good unit. The Embedix platform has a great chance to overtake PalmOS. I can't wait to see these things evolve over time. I hope they take a cue from Sony and improve the screen res, add nice metal cases, and add a remote control for the audio.
Yeah, but your run-of-the-mill econ 101 microeconomic analysis assumes a couple of things to come to that conclusion:
There are no barriers to entry
Investment is liquid and capital is perfectly mobile
Unfortunately, in the telecom world, these assumptions don't hold up to scrutiny. There are significant barriers to entry (very high capital startup costs, the difficulty of getting a franchise to lay lines, single company control of the lines, etc) and the capital here is not very liquid or mobile. All this leads to large behemoth telco companies that aren't responsive to the marketplace, so we may indeed see an actual shortage. This isn't simply theory vs. the real world: it's a case of applying the wrong economic model. But I digress...
Regardless of the effectiveness of such a measure, it's constitutionality is in doubt. I'm wondering how civil libertarians might make a case against this based on prior restraint?
Oh, sure. That's it. Just copy everything you'll ever need to a local mirror. Including up-to-date bug lists, development-related discussion boards, and tip sites like jguru.com. Kind of defeats the purpose of the internet as a research and investigative tool, doesn't it? Especially the part where collaboration and discussion with others outside the company comes into play.
Don't get me wrong: I have no qualms with keeping employees from doing personal business at work, but this is not a good way to go about doing it for many professions. If you want to prevent security problems, don't buy exploit-laden software. Patch the software you do have. IT may not like having to deal with these things, but that's their job. If you don't like it, find another line of work. As for management, they should know better than to adopt this line of thinking. No, personal internet usage at work isn't a right, but adopting a policy like this will certainly make employees distrustful and angry. That's what I call being managed into the ground.
This won't work for people who do more than automaton work. If you restrict net access or filter sites in any way, you risk employee burnout, employee morale, and employees' ability to research job-related stuff. If my company used filtering or blocked my internet access, I might not be able to get the information I need to do my job. What happens when I need to look for API documentation?
This is kind of like curing athlete's foot by amputating the patient's leg.
No, the poster is essentially correct. The banks actually create the money through loans and reserves at the fed. The Fed certainly does enforce a reserve requirement on the banks, and that's one of the tools they have to affect the economy: they can increase reserve requirements on banks and the money supply will contract. But that's rarely used because it's a very drastic measure.
As for the discount rate, that's used more often, but it's not what really manipulates the money supply. It's treated as an indication of what the Fed intends to do with open market operations, the buying and selling of treasury bonds. This is their main policy tool to contract or expand the money supply.
You may have taken several econ classes, but I'm not surprised you never ran into this. This is typically covered in intermediate macro and money & banking courses and if you weren't an econ major you probably didn't take those courses.
I wonder if M$ will fall into line with the RIAA and MPAA and implement some sort of DRM scheme on this filesystem. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.
That's odd. I'm doing the same thing, but the audio player refuses to recognize any tracks. They must include different audio software for the european market. I wonder if that software will work on the 760?
That said, I don't think the current DOJ gives a rat's ass about the public's opinion on the case (duh). Republicans repeatedly criticized Clinton for using public opinion polls...I guess they think that those corporate campaign contributors are much more worthwhile to listen to (DISCLAIMER: I am not a Clinton supporter or apologist, nor do I believe for a second that Clinton wasn't beholden to corporate interests...I'm merely pointing out a hypocrisy). Those $4M USD in campaign contributions will grab the attention of the DOJ over the public interest any day.
Someone with time on his/her hands should index these comments and come up with some statistics: how many of the comments were (a) for or against the settlement, (b) how many were form letters, (c) how many were submitted by corporations vs. individuals. Not that these are terribly meaningful, but they would shed some light on the DOJ's summary comments.
By the way - notice the.htm extension on all these pages. Netcraft says they're running Netscape-Enterprise 4.0 on Solaris, but I wonder if they didn't use Front Page to create these pages...
That depends entirely on the definition of "damages" wouldn't it? I'm sure all of *us* would consider the time it takes to hit the delete button as damaging, but it didn't do any damage to our *system*.
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Well, a VFR ticket is more than I have at the moment. I can understand saying or doing things in the heat of the moment...as long as you don't do it in the cockpit, we'll all be fine ;-)
Ultimately, I think this system is going to make pilots more vigilant. I've heard so many anecdotes about controllers causing near-misses (my uncle almost got creamed by a commuter plane while flying his warrior) that I think this may be a good thing.
This system simply provides location and identification information to airplanes operating under ATC. The system tells the controller where the aircraft is, the aircraft transponder tells the controller who the aircraft is, and the controller then issues instructions to the pilot, who is then responsible for executing those instructions. The hijackers of september 11 flew those planes into the towers and Pentagon by visual navigation (at least for the last few miles...they may have used the GPS system to navigate to NYC or DC).
In short, the ATC system had nothing to do with those airplanes flying into buildings. The only way your blacker side situation would work would be to have a malicious person operating as the controller, and IFR conditions so a non-hijacker pilot couldn't see where he's going.
I live on Potrero Hill, and can probably do line of sight to your house. I look at Twin Peaks out my living room window. Wanna try a linkup?
I'm glad this ridiculous ruling was objected to and stayed (for now), but it touches on a bigger problem: PVR companies could shield their customers from this type of abuse by simply not implementing a way to track viewing habits. Just make a PVR that doesn't track anything but software diagnostics. Then advertise it as a feature: "we won't spy on your viewing habits like other PVR companies!"
Of course, an unscrupulous PVR company could make that claim, get someone like TrustE to back it up, then put a bunch of fine print in that basically exempts them from it.
The bill would cover transactions both on the Internet and in the "offline" world, and would override state laws that place more restrictions on commercial use of personal information. Sponsors said the bill would establish basic privacy protections for consumers while minimizing the impact on business.
...
"Consumers would have no right to sue if their privacy was violated. Enforcement would be left in the hands of the Federal Trade Commission, which usually does not impose fines on a first offense.
Companies submitting to a self-regulatory privacy regime such as TRUSTe or BBBonline would enjoy protection from FTC actions."
This is absolutely obscene. It overrides more restrictive state laws (so much for Republicans respecting states' rights), removes consumers' right to sue when they are wronged, and protects companies who enroll in TrustE's BS service to escape FTC punishment when they violate the rules. Sounds like those campaign bribes, er, contributions are paying off big.
Actually, I think the towers would do an adequate job of crashing on their own if M$FT built them...
Yeah, it's a lot easier to run this type of story than to conduct real journalism (like exposing Senator Disney Hollings to public scrutiny for trying to allow media companies to screw us every which way). Of course, CNN isn't exactly known as a bastion of good journalism. None of the major news entities are. They serve advertisers, not the viewing public.
This works on 6.0.2600.0000 on Win2K. Seems like we get a new IE loophole every week.
Actually, I was writing that on the on-screen keyboard. I was also still in bed and a bit drowsy...;-)
There are some valid criticisms there. I'm still using my Clie as a PDA, but the Zaurus is great and will only get better. The US Robotics Pilot sucked when it first came out, but it evolved into an essestial tool over time. I hope the Zaurus evolves that way too. I'd like to see a smaller form factor, better s reen res, metal cases, and a way to place the display on hold while playing music. The battery life needs to improve dramatically, especially when using a wireless card.
That said, not many PDAs give you both CF and SD slots. Embedix/Qt is a great OS for the PDA, and I hope it grows and rivals Palm OS and Pocket PC.
Or you can put Embedix on it:
http://www.handlelds.org.
Watch for these on eBay. I'll be posting my extra one in a day or two.
You have to plug into the headphone jack to record.
This is a great little machine. Embedix 2.4 with both CF and SD/MMC slots (the DRM on the SD is not enabled on the Zaurus). The screen is pretty good (320 x 240) and the apps run very smoothly with 64MB of memory. About 30 people her ein my ofice bought the developer edition at JavaOne, and they're all a bit jealous now. Of course, I did pay a whole lot more than they did.
I was a bit dissappointed that there's no GUI bash shell on the consumer edition (there was a Qt app shell on the developer edition). I suppose that can be remedied with a software install, but I haven't found the installer yet. It works well with the Linksys WiFi card...but the battery life goes straight down the tube when you're surfing.
Overall, I'd say it's a very good unit. The Embedix platform has a great chance to overtake PalmOS. I can't wait to see these things evolve over time. I hope they take a cue from Sony and improve the screen res, add nice metal cases, and add a remote control for the audio.
Yeah, but your run-of-the-mill econ 101 microeconomic analysis assumes a couple of things to come to that conclusion:
Unfortunately, in the telecom world, these assumptions don't hold up to scrutiny. There are significant barriers to entry (very high capital startup costs, the difficulty of getting a franchise to lay lines, single company control of the lines, etc) and the capital here is not very liquid or mobile. All this leads to large behemoth telco companies that aren't responsive to the marketplace, so we may indeed see an actual shortage. This isn't simply theory vs. the real world: it's a case of applying the wrong economic model. But I digress...
Regardless of the effectiveness of such a measure, it's constitutionality is in doubt. I'm wondering how civil libertarians might make a case against this based on prior restraint?
Oh, sure. That's it. Just copy everything you'll ever need to a local mirror. Including up-to-date bug lists, development-related discussion boards, and tip sites like jguru.com. Kind of defeats the purpose of the internet as a research and investigative tool, doesn't it? Especially the part where collaboration and discussion with others outside the company comes into play.
Don't get me wrong: I have no qualms with keeping employees from doing personal business at work, but this is not a good way to go about doing it for many professions. If you want to prevent security problems, don't buy exploit-laden software. Patch the software you do have. IT may not like having to deal with these things, but that's their job. If you don't like it, find another line of work. As for management, they should know better than to adopt this line of thinking. No, personal internet usage at work isn't a right, but adopting a policy like this will certainly make employees distrustful and angry. That's what I call being managed into the ground.
This won't work for people who do more than automaton work. If you restrict net access or filter sites in any way, you risk employee burnout, employee morale, and employees' ability to research job-related stuff. If my company used filtering or blocked my internet access, I might not be able to get the information I need to do my job. What happens when I need to look for API documentation?
This is kind of like curing athlete's foot by amputating the patient's leg.
No, the poster is essentially correct. The banks actually create the money through loans and reserves at the fed. The Fed certainly does enforce a reserve requirement on the banks, and that's one of the tools they have to affect the economy: they can increase reserve requirements on banks and the money supply will contract. But that's rarely used because it's a very drastic measure.
As for the discount rate, that's used more often, but it's not what really manipulates the money supply. It's treated as an indication of what the Fed intends to do with open market operations, the buying and selling of treasury bonds. This is their main policy tool to contract or expand the money supply.
You may have taken several econ classes, but I'm not surprised you never ran into this. This is typically covered in intermediate macro and money & banking courses and if you weren't an econ major you probably didn't take those courses.
I wonder if M$ will fall into line with the RIAA and MPAA and implement some sort of DRM scheme on this filesystem. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.
Hmm. So I take it you use another type of audio player software? If so, where can I find it?
Thanks
That's odd. I'm doing the same thing, but the audio player refuses to recognize any tracks. They must include different audio software for the european market. I wonder if that software will work on the 760?
Would you mind describing how to get those regular MP3s to play on the 760? I haven't figured it out yet.
Thanks
Well, let me start by saying here's mine.
That said, I don't think the current DOJ gives a rat's ass about the public's opinion on the case (duh). Republicans repeatedly criticized Clinton for using public opinion polls...I guess they think that those corporate campaign contributors are much more worthwhile to listen to (DISCLAIMER: I am not a Clinton supporter or apologist, nor do I believe for a second that Clinton wasn't beholden to corporate interests...I'm merely pointing out a hypocrisy). Those $4M USD in campaign contributions will grab the attention of the DOJ over the public interest any day.
Someone with time on his/her hands should index these comments and come up with some statistics: how many of the comments were (a) for or against the settlement, (b) how many were form letters, (c) how many were submitted by corporations vs. individuals. Not that these are terribly meaningful, but they would shed some light on the DOJ's summary comments.
By the way - notice the .htm extension on all these pages. Netcraft says they're running Netscape-Enterprise 4.0 on Solaris, but I wonder if they didn't use Front Page to create these pages...
That depends entirely on the definition of "damages" wouldn't it? I'm sure all of *us* would consider the time it takes to hit the delete button as damaging, but it didn't do any damage to our *system*.